OCR Competition Announcement

[Lucas, Simon M]

 Dear All,

 We are now inviting entries
 for our OCR competition sponsored
 by the UK Post Office.

 For more details go to
   http://algoval.essex.ac.uk
 and follow the link to OCR Competition.

 This competition is challenging in several ways:

  1. The PO Digits dataset (on which
     accuracy is judged) is sparse
     and quite variable.

  2. The algorithm implementation plus
     any data it needs to store its trained
     state must occupy less than 50,000 bytes.

  3. There are many other comparison criteria  
     (see rules for more details) that apply in
     order to separate algorithms that have 
     test set accuracy that is not statistically
     separable.

  4. There are strict limits on other performance aspects
     such as training and recognition time - see rules
     for more details.

  Enjoy!

  Simon Lucas

ps. Note that at present algorithms must
    be implemented in Java.



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Dr. Simon Lucas
Department of Computer Science
University of Essex
Colchester CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom
Email:  sml at essex.ac.uk
http://algoval.essex.ac.uk
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